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Subsidies, Shadow of Death and Productivity
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987353
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Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Public Sector Information Spur Firm Growth?
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
The firm-level data concerning re-users of geographical information (GI) active in architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy sector from 15 countries during the year 2000-2007 suggests that the pricing of public sector GI strongly relates to the firms sales...
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Public R&D Subsidies and Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence from Finnish Firms
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This study empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level. The data from the Finnish companies suggests that the firms that have received public R&D funding have not generally witnessed any greater employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700394
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The role of business subsidies in job-creation start-ups, gazelles and imcumbents
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
Our data concerning the whole Finnish company population from the years 2003-2008 suggest that the impacts of business subsidies on employment growth differ more between high-growth start-ups and other firms than between start-ups and over five years old incumbents. All subsidies seem to relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919629
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Do Business Subsidies Facilitate Employment Growth?
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
We use data from 15508 Finnish companies with 10 or more employees for the years 2003-2008 to explore the relationship between employment growth and three endogenously determined business subsidy types (i.e. employment subsidy, R&D subsidy and other business subsidies). We find a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784510
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Public R&D Funding and Entrepreneurial Innovation
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms` innovation output. The firms obtaining the public R&D support were not performing significantly better, on average, than others. However, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818415
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International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies
Kaitila, Ville; McQuinn, John; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987098
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The Nature of the Finnish Competitiveness Problem
Maliranta, Mika; Vihriälä, Vesa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A better export and employment performance requires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987113
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Servitization as a Productive Strategy of a Firm - Evidence from the Forest-Based Industries
Viitamo, Esa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987118
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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity
Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987122